Beránci a Vlci

This ambitious recording originates in a show put on at the Folk Holidays Festival in the Czech Republic. It brings together traditional Moravian musicians with contemporary folk performers in a meeting of styles. At the traditional end there's the Women's Choir from Kudlovic and the group RukyNaDudy, playing bagpipes and various flutes from the Beskid mountains of north-east Moravia. The contemporary musicians are Sdružení Nezávislých Jazzmenů (Group of Independent Jazzmen) and the excellent Jitka Šuranská Trio.
There are some beautiful things here, such as the title-track (meaning ‘Rams and Wolves’) with its haunting flutes, and the closing ‘Svatební’ (Wedding Songs) but there are also some over-extended improvisations, as on ‘Hradištĕ’. Ranging from folklore to jazz to early music, there's no real consistency of sound as the ingredients are so diverse. It doesn't sort the sheep from the goats and probably made more sense in the festival than it does on disc.